Full o’ Buster

August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

As I watch ESPN’s promos for the tireless work of baseball reporter Buster Olney — constantly taking phone calls, talking in Japanese to Ichiro, passing himself as he walks out of a building — I sometimes pause to consider how improbable this would have seemed in the ’90s. I worked with Buster when he covered [...]

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You don’t care about steroids, right?

July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments

Drip, drip, drip … two more names from the infamous 2003 positive drug-test list — Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Given Ramirez’s suspension this year, his appearance in The New York Times report can’t be too much of a surprise. Ortiz, on the other hand, had said in February that players testing positive for performance-enhancing [...]

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From press box to front office

July 28, 2009 | Comments Off

Mets general manager Omar Minaya went into full blame-the-messenger mode after the club fired team executive Tony Bernazard, whose bizarre behavior first was reported by the New York Daily News‘ Adam Rubin. After Minaya basically said Rubin wrote the stories in some kind of effort to get himself a front-office job, Mets chief Jeff Wilpon [...]

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SMJ the Toddler

March 10, 2009 | Comments Off

I started Sports Media Journal (SMJ) two years ago this week. No big deal really. One of my first articles was a piece entitled What I Like About Sports Media- 2007. Not much has changed in terms of how I view the sports media industry. The onsie to the left shows us that we are [...]

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On Press Row- Fenway Park, Boston

September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

For the life-long baseball fan, a visit to Fenway Park is a must stop. For the baseball journalist, an assignment in the Fenway press box is also something special. I had the opportunity last month to cover a baseball game from the Fenway press box. Before you jump the gun wondering how a sports blogger [...]

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